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Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012

Figures for 2012, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012 covers 140 countries on 3 measures. Seychelles is highest, at 478.223; Puerto Rico is lowest, at 0.254. The middle country reads 5.474. Against 2011, 124 values changed (56 up, 68 down), 16 countries joined, 14 left.

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Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary · Data for 2012

HighestSeychelles

478.223

LowestPuerto Rico

0.254

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 140 countries · select a heading to sort

Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa478.223354.5726849.172
AndorraANDSouthern Europe274.333227.0367347.987
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe143.739142.3519145.535
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe126.752121.2453132.749
BermudaBMUNorthern America113.25172.8946193.116
ComorosCOMEastern Africa101.52377.8528121.407
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe97.696138.799575.966
CyprusCYPWestern Asia84.88481.684288.501
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean66.79640.9320122.754
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia47.35049.179146.131
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia42.55738.877748.536
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia41.8046.969780.746
São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa37.73637.251338.145
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa35.85828.000546.393
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa34.15627.478938.329
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean32.90512.871678.382
GambiaGMBWestern Africa25.14218.772029.645
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa22.82018.189524.743
NigerNERWestern Africa20.37017.335821.540
QatarQATWestern Asia20.3238.183143.006
GuyanaGUYSouth America18.99414.567627.904
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia18.9582.103435.070
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa18.50214.230324.083
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa17.82017.458718.104
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe17.42014.587120.841

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Seychelles478.223
  2. Andorra274.333
  3. San Marino143.739
  4. Luxembourg126.752
  5. Bermuda113.251

Lowest

  1. Puerto Rico0.254
  2. Argentina0.304
  3. Philippines0.373
  4. Cuba0.448
  5. Brazil0.532

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5.474. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −14countries joined / left
  • 124values changed, of 124 in both
  • 56 · 68rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Burundi+ Cook Islands+ Dominican Republic+ Ecuador+ Honduras+ Liberia+ Lesotho+ Luxembourg+ Marshall Islands+ North Macedonia+ Puerto Rico+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Sint Maarten+ Tanzania+ South Africa− Afghanistan− Angola− Barbados− Côte d’Ivoire− Djibouti− Cambodia− Malawi− Nigeria− Nepal− Oman− North Korea− Eswatini− Chad− Yemen

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • 10 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2012). Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/outbound-mobility/2012

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07Questions

Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest students studying abroad (outbound mobility) in Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012?

Seychelles, at 478.223, of the 140 countries in the file.

What year does Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012 cover?

140.

Where can I download Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023.

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